Student Work and Public Resources

Zines:

1) '08 "Re-membering the US- Mexico Border"

2) '09 "We Asked for Workers and There Came Human Beings"

Powerpoints:

1) '09 "Myths of Migration" Slides and Script

2) "Refocusing Debate" Slides and Script

3)"La Importancia de la Comunicacion" Slides and Script

Letters: Instructions to Border Activists for sending these letters

1) Letter to Your Congressman for repeal of the Real ID Act

2) Letter to Janet Napolitano, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security against "prevention through deterrence" polices

3) Letter to President Obama for repeal of employer sanctions

Suggested Border Studies Readings

Day of the Dead Alter in El Paso, TX.

"The border society that has emerged over time as a result of massive population relocations is distinct from that of either the United States or Mexico; it is both an amalgam of the two and entirely different from either."

-David E. Lorey, The U.S.-Mexican Border in the Twentieth Century, 3

Fiction

• Anaya, Rudolfo. Bless Me, Ultima. Berkley, CA: Tonatiuh-Quinto Sol Publishers, 1992.
• Boyle, T. Coraghessan. The Tortilla Curtain. Penguin Books, 1995.
• Burciaga, José Antonio. Drink Cultura: Chicanismo. Santa Barbara: Joshua Odell Editions, 1993.
• Burciaga, José Antonio. Spilling the Beans. Santa Barbara: Joshua Odell Editions, 1995.
• Cantú, Norma Elia. Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1995.
• Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street.
• Fuentes, Carlos. The Crystal Frontier. Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1997.
• Rechy, John. The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez. New York: Arcade Publishing, 1991.
• Saenz, Benjamin Alire. Carry Me Like Water. Harper Perennial, 1995.
• Sanchez, Ricardo. Canto y Grito--Mi Liberación: The Liberation of a Chicano Mind and Soul. Washington State UP, 1995.

Non-Fiction

• Acuña, Rudolfo. Occupied in America: A History of Chicanos. Addison, 4th Edition, 1999.
  
• Adler, Rudy, Victoria Criado, and Brett Huneycutt. Border Film Project: Photos by Migrants and Minutemen on the U.S.-Mexico Border. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2007.
  
• Anzaldúa. Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. San Francisco: Spinsters/Aunt Lute, 1987.
• Bowden, Charles. Juárez: the laboratory of our future. Aperature Foundation, 1998.
• Byrd, Bobby and Susannah Mississippi Bryd, eds. The Late Great Mexican Border: Reports from a Disappearing Line. Cinco Puntos Press, 1996.
• Dunn, Timothy J. The Militarization of the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1978-1992: Low-Intesnsity Conflict Doctrine Come Home. Center for Mexican American Studies, 1996.
• Dwyer, Augusta. On the Line: Life on the U.S. Mexican Border. London: Latin American Bureau, 1994.
• Fox, Geoffrey. Hispanic Nation: Culture, Politics, and the Constructing of Identity. Birch Lane Press, 1996.
• Gomez-Peña, Guillermo. The New World Border. San Francisco: City Lights, 1996.
• Gomez-Peña, Guillermo. Warrior for Gringostroika. Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1993.
• Hickey, Maeve and Lawrence Taylor. Ambos Nogales: Intimate Portraits on the U.S.-Mexico Border. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 2002.
• Hickey, Maeve and Lawrence Taylor. Tunnel Kids. Tucson: University of Arizonza Press, 2001.
• Hoffman, Anya and Rachel Kamel. The Maquiladora Reader: Cross-Border Organizing Since NAFTA. Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committtee, 1999.
• Lopez-Stratford, Gloria. A Place in El Paso. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996.
• Lorey, David. The U.S. Mexican Border in the Twentieth Century. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1998.
• Marciel, David R. and Maria Herrera-Sobek, eds. Culture Across Borders: Mexican immigration and Popular Culture. Tuscon: The University of Arizona Press, 1998.
• Martinez, Oscar. Border People: Life and Society in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. University of Arizona Press, 1994.
• McWilliams, Carey. North from Mexico: The Spanish Speaking People in the United States. Preager, 1930. A pioneer studypublished in the 1930's and updated by Matt S. Meier in 1990.
• Miller, Tom. On the Border: Portraits of America's Southwestern Frontier. Tuscon: The University of Arizona Press, 1981.
• Montejano, David. Anglos and Mexican in the Makeup of Texas, 1836-1986. UT Press, 1987.
• Nathan, Debbie. Women and Other Aliens: Essays from the U.S.-Mexico Border. Cinco Punto Press, 1991.
  
• Nazario, Sonia. Enrique’s Journey. Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007.
• Nevins, Joseph. Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid. San Francisco: City Lights, 2008.
• Nevins, Joseph. Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the Illegal Alien. Routledge, 2002.
• Paredes, Americo. Folklore and Culture on the Texas-Mexico Border. UT Press, 1993.
• Pastor, Robert ad Jorge Castañada. Limits to Friendship: The United States and Mexico. Knopf, 1988.
• Ruiz, Ramón Eduardo. On the Rim of Mexico: Encounters of the Rich and Poor. Westview Press, 1998.
• Saldivar, José David. Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies. University of California Press, 1997.
• Scheurich, James Joseph and Valenzuela, Angela, eds. The Border Studies Program: Ethnography as Pedagogy in the Undergraduate Education. International Journal of Qualitative Studies In Education, 15(1) Taylor & Francis Group, 2002.
• Sklair, Leslie. Assembling for Development. UC San Diego Press, 1993.
• Staudt, Kathleen. Free Trade? Informal Economies at the U.S.-Mexico Border. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1998.
• Stavans, Ilan. The Hispanic Condition: Reflection on Culture and Identity in America. Harper Collins, 1995.
• Vélez-Ibañez, Carlos. Border Visions. University of Arizona Press, 1997.

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